03585cam a2200361 i 4500 1396158250 TxAuBib 20240711120000.0 231121s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780393241051 HRD 40.00 039324105X HRD 40.00 (OCoLC)1410103005 TxAuBib rda TxAuBib rda Tick, Judith, author. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald [BOOK] : the jazz singer who transformed American song / Judith Tick. Jazz singer who transformed American song. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2024] ©2024. xxii, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-539), discography (page 539), and index. Young Ella (1917-1932) -- Amateur Nights (1933-1935) -- Into Chick Webb's Orbit (1935) -- Swing-Song Singer (1935-1936) -- The Second Feature (1936-1937) -- "Truckin' On Down The Avenue" (1938) -- Chick And Ella (1939) -- Orchestra Leader (1940-1942) -- The Home Front (1941-1945) -- "Going Dizzy" (1945-1947) -- Ella's Moon (1947-1949) -- "The Singer And The Label Are In It Together" (1948-1953) -- Early Years With Jazz At The Philharmonic (1949-1952) -- Europe With Jazz At The Philharmonic (1952-1953) -- Upwardly Mobile (1954-1955) -- "We Got Ella!" (1954-1956) -- The Cole Porter Experiment (1956-1957) -- Sing Me A Standard (1956-1957) -- Flouting Categories (1957-1958) -- Midcentury Modern Triumphs (1959) -- "It's Quite A Problem Trying To Please Everyone" (1960-1964) -- Generation Gaps (1963-1965) -- A Jazz Oasis In A Changing Scene (1966-1967) -- Reinventing Herself (1968-1969) -- Keeping On (1970-1972) -- "You Can Always Learn" (1973-1978) -- "Push Me, Push Me" (1979-1985) -- "Don't Ever Wish For The Phrase To End" (1986-1996.) "Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer’s difficult childhood in Yonkers, New York, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls’ reformatory school―where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer. Rarely seen profiles from the Black press offer precious glimpses of Fitzgerald’s tense experiences of racial discrimination and her struggles with constricting models of Black and white femininity at midcentury. Tick’s compelling narrative depicts Fitzgerald’s complicated career in fresh and original detail, upending the traditional view that segregates vocal jazz from the genre’s mainstream. As she navigated the shifting tides between jazz and pop, she used her originality to pioneer modernist vocal jazz. Interpreting long-lost setlists, reviews from both white and Black newspapers, and newly released footage and recordings, the book explores how Ella’s transcendence as an improvisor produced onstage performances every bit as significant as her historic recorded oeuvre." -Provided by publisher. 20231213. Fitzgerald, Ella 1917-1996. Women jazz singers United States Biography. Jazz singers United States Biography. African American jazz musicians United States Biography. Biographies.